gild the lily

gild the lily

Fig. to add ornament or decoration to something that is pleasing in its original state; to attempt to improve something that is already fine the way it is. (Often refers to flattery or exaggeration.) Your house has lovely brickwork. Don't paint it. That would be gilding the lily.Oh, Sally. You're beautiful the way you are. You don't need makeup. You would be gilding the lily.

gild the lily

Add unnecessary adornment or supposed improvement. For example, Offering three different desserts after that elaborate meal would be gilding the lily. This expression is a condensation of Shakespeare's metaphor in King John (4:2): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess." [c. 1800]

gild the lily

If someone gilds the lily, they try to improve something which is already very good, and so what they are doing is unnecessary. There can be a temptation to gild the lily in such documents, making exaggerated claims about what the school can offer to students.Top the cake with ice cream or whipped cream, if you're keen on gilding the lily. Note: This expression may be based on lines in Shakespeare's `King John' (1595): `To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.' (Act 4, Scene 2)

gild the ˈlily

try to improve something which is already perfect, and so spoil it: The dress is perfect. Don’t add anything to it at all. It would just be gilding the lily.This comes from Shakespeare’s play King John. Gild means ‘to cover something with a thin layer of gold’. A lily is a very beautiful flower.

gild the lily

gild the lily

Engage in an unnecessary and usually wasteful activity. Like carrying coals to Newcastle, to gild a lily would be a waste of time as the flower already possesses more than sufficient beauty. The phrase comes from a misquotation of lines from Shakespeare's King John:
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily . . .
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

There's a fundamental shift in the relationship between consumers and media today, and Gannett is leading the way in transforming how it serves the needs of consumers," said Gilding.

In addition to being president and principle strategist of in:site, Gilding formerly served as strategist for Omnicom Group's Diversified Agency Services and was a founding partner of Omnicom Group's G23, which focused on communications to women.

But after originally giving their permission the Union have now asked the Midlands rivals for more information on the deals that took prop Jack Gilding from Worcester to Billesley Common and hooker Joe Merrigan back to Butts Park.

Gilding started against Rotherham on March 27 and Bees claim that Moseley didn't need him because they already had front-rowers Yann Thomas, Terry Sigley and Dan Oselton on the bench.

It is a unique synthesis of Eastern traditional and modern concepts in architecture," said Mohammed Iqbal Warakhwala, who was part of the gilding team and is a member of the International Society of Gilders, USA.

The Elkington brothers' inventionsThe Elkington brothers were originally gilt toy makers, but in 1836 George Richards Elkington invented gilding by dipping items in a solution of gold in water, bicarbonate and potassium.

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